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[^1]\n\nJulia Dhar, founder of the Behavioral Science Lab at Boston Consulting Group, defines the 'false agreement trap' as the gap between superficial alignment and explicit agreements with clear rules and numbers. [^2]\n\nApproximately 1.6 million tons of critical and strategic raw materials, including copper, aluminum, lithium, cobalt, and rare earths, are introduced into new devices on the EU market annually. [^3]\n\nThe study, presented at the IFA technology fair in Berlin, warns that the European Union faces drastic industrial risks due to geopolitical dependencies on raw material imports. [^4]\n\nWhile over 13 million tons of e-waste are generated annually in Europe, the official collection rate is only about 43 percent, leaving an estimated 700 million unused smartphones in European drawers. [^5]\n\nDhar warns that vague plans multiplying confusion lead to execution team paralysis, hyperactivity, or tunnel vision, often resulting in superficial initiatives that fail to improve the customer experience. [^6]\n\nJulia Dhar published her book 'How Change Really Works' with Harvard Business Review Press in 2026, arguing that most transformations fail because leaders act as if they coincide when they do not. [^7]\n\nLee Ross, a researcher at Stanford, described the 'false consensus effect,' which is the tendency to overestimate how many people think like us. 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